The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex.

Date:: 1797

Credit: The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$AS 04, RUDIMENTS oy FASTER) “Without doubt, fuperior minds have a quicker fenfgy of what is beautiful in nature, or defirable in life, thams apeafant, whole ideas extend corbaead his daily. oc-j cupations—perhaps they feel alfo more acutely the - evils of their condition 3 yet th »perfons who fuifer. molt - bya affected fenfibility are not they who have thes erent Ihave ofafflictiveevents, but the idly f{pecula- i tive, who being employed to no good purpofe, have; time to nourifh thofe artificial feelings which Nature knows nothing of. A bal pee 4 Senfibitity |-$—-What is it ?—Is it not that delicate ’ perception of natural and moral beauty, which the” Creator hasimplanted in the foul to exalt its happinefs,_ and.awaken its nobleft paflions? How greatly, then, do they err who fubftitute inthe room-of this beft gifts of Heaven, that which is the very weakne({s of huma-_ ity de and peevifhnets ? : a, ec REP A ‘paying a very poor compliment to literary, murfaits, to fuppofe they are productive of that foft= nefs which untits the mind for enduring the common, accidents of life. And thofe attainments are of. little; value that ferve no better purpofe than to barbthe ar-, rows of misfortune witthitings which the enlightened never feel. But probably they o dream of fuch effects are the fuperficial, who never dived beyond the forface of literature, and whofe feeble. intelle&s are: unable to digcft even the little they have imbibed. . | If you have really made any advancement in mental, improvement, it will invigorate the powe sof thes foul, and infpire her with that magnanimity whichis: certainly neceffary to the happines of a being who is, every moment expofed to forrow al ; ow and difappointment., Value not yourfelyes onany refinéments that are fhort, hue- OF this elect. had bi ‘ ee Some, Iknow, are eve reftrained from tlie ¢ éife of benevolence by this afietation of fenfibilit their feelings are too tender to bear with {cenesof d trefs, and too refined for the duties of focial lifes i] “therefore keep at an unfriendly diftance from. deft the ignorance or rudeneis they nei imay meet epi.” aa - - ‘ 5 : i$

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